Plastic pollution tends to float near the surface and build up in large, rotating ocean currents known as gyres. The ...

In the late 2010s, when Assistant Professor Flavio Lehner worked for the National Center for Atmospheric Research in Boulder, ...

The combined effects of climate change and air pollution have led to direct declines in precipitation in the U.S. Southwest, ...

Not so terribly long ago the International Energy Agency issued one of the early century’s most optimistic projections for the environment, human health, and water quality. It declared 2013 the year ...

A combination of sewage overflows and coastal winds could be sending billions of airborne microplastic particles into the ...

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Drinking water treatment that pursues a multi-contaminant approach, tackling several pollutants at once, could prevent more ...

Drinking water treatment that pursues a multi-contaminant approach, tackling several pollutants at once, could prevent more than 50,000 lifetime cancer cases in the U.S., finds a new peer-reviewed ...

The study found widespread microplastic pollution across some Appalachian streams, which poses ecological and public health ...

A chemical commonly found in sunscreen could be making plastic in oceans even harder to break down, according to University ...

The report caps a two-year-long research review by a team of 16 scientists that focused on pollution patterns in two ...

Billionaire Elon Musk's development of a supercomputer in Memphis is another environmental blow to a marginalized Black ...